Lacing-hook.



ITED STATES PATENT @FETCH JOHN WAGNER, or Hown, IDAHO, AssIeNon oF THREE-romanes To MARTIN KnAULnIDEs, oF TABER, IDAHO.

LACING-HOOK.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 1S, 1917.

Application led July 3, 1915. Serial No. 37,843.

To ali whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, Jol-1N WAGNER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Howe7 in the county of Fremont and State of Idaho, have invented new and useful Improvements in Lacing-Hooks, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to lacing hooks and the principal object of the invention is to provide a simple and etlicient device of this character which, when the lacing is drawn taut around the same, will be closed, so as to prevent the skirts or trousers of the weaier from catching into the hook and which automatically opens from releasing the strain thereon when the lacing is loosened.

Further objects of the invention will appear as the following specific description is read in connection with the accompanying drawing which forms a part of this application, and in which Figure l is a top plan view,

F ig. 2 is a side elevation with the base in section.

Referring more particularly to the drawings, 1 represents the upper of an ordinary laced shoe to which is attached the required number of lacing hooks generally indicated at 2. These lacing hooks each comprise in this instance, a flat metal base 8 which is riveted or otherwise secured to the shoe upper and which has projecting laterally therefrom spaced parallel bearing ears t, between which is pivoted the lever member generally indicated at 5. Said lever is an L-shaped structure having its angle standing between and pivoted to said ears as shown, its short leg l0 projecting from the pivot toward the base, its long leg 6 normally Yheld against the base by having the short leg thereof engaged by the end of the leaf spring 7 which is passed through apertures 9 in the base and has its end bent up against the back of the short leg as shown. The short leg 10 of the lever has its front edge dished and standing forward of the bearing ears so as to be acted upon directly by the lacing when the shoe is laced, so that it is pulled rearwardly upon tension being placed upon the lacing and the forward end of the long leg thus pulled down against the upper' of the shoe thereby preventing it from catching in the skirt or trousers of the wearer.

Vha-t is claimed is y The herein described lacing hook for shoes and the like, the same comprising a flat base having a pair of apertures and on opposite sides thereof a pair of upstanding ears, an L-shaped lever pivoted at its angle between said ears and having a short arm projecting toward the base and a long arm extending over the base and adapted to contact with the shoe-upper, and a spring strung through the apertures in the base with one extremity bent up against the back of the short leg of said lever to hold the tip of the long leg 'normally raised and the throat of thehook open, the tension of the lacing against the short leg tending to overcome said spring and close the lacing hook.

In testimony whereof I aHiX my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WAGNER.

lVitnesses BRUCE GoRANsoN, L. D. BROWN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Washington, D. G. 

